COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Top health officials in Franklin County are concerned following a spike in overdose deaths last week, when the county reported six deaths in a 36-hour span between Aug. 25 and 26.
“We were on track to have a substantial decrease in overdose deaths,” Franklin County Coroner Dr. Nathaniel Overmire said. “In August, it’s been an interesting rise we’ve seen recently over the last few weeks. It’s, it’s, we haven’t, we’ve had a disturbing trend of increasing the number of deaths from overdoses.”
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Overmire said they are still testing to find the official cause of the six deaths. However, he said the substances they often see cause many deaths are fentanyl and cocaine.
“So anytime there’s a surge like this, it usually means that there’s a bad batch,” Overmire said. “Folks are getting illegal drugs from the streets and it’s a bad batch. It’s not usually mean that more folks are using illicit substances, and so when there’s a bad batch, usually that comes with a lot of different worries from me, and I worry that more folks are going to pass away from these illegal substances.”…